Atlantic Canada Timezone

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I’m having trouble finding the Atlantic Canada Timezone for setting up the time being pulled over ethernet from the instructions at: http://www.circuidipity.com/getting-started-with-beaglebone-black.html
Inside usr/share/zoneinfo/ I cannot find the Atlantic timezone.

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In Debian, I find it inside
usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/

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I’m using Angstrom and Canada is not located anywhere in usr/share/zoneinfo
On another note,
The BBB is new to me and I’m a nube going through the Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black book examples. If I were to install Debian onto it, can I still follow the book examples? I get the feeling that Debian is preferred for some reason over Angstrom.

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yes there is a shift to Debian and I believe the new boards are being shipped with Debian rather than Angstrom.

I’m not sure what that means in terms of your book, but given that you are new to BBB, I’d continue to work on the examples with Angstrom and the book. Once you get a footing, jump over to Debian.

I’m no expert but maybe a package is missing in Angstrom for the Atlantic time zone … maybe try something like (use at your own risk)
sudo opkg update
sudo opkg install tzdata-canada

good luck

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Hi,
Me Again …,

do you see /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax ???

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/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax is not there at all.
Just- Anchorage Caracas Chicago Denver Los_Angeles New_York Sao_Paulo appears.

Unknown package ‘tzdata-canada’ appears when I try sudo opkg install tzdata-canada.

Mike

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/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax is not there at all.
Just- Anchorage Caracas Chicago Denver Los_Angeles New_York Sao_Paulo
appears.

Unknown package 'tzdata-canada' appears when I try sudo opkg install
tzdata-canada.

Try tzdata-atlantic

Other tzdata packages should be:

tzdata-africa
tzdata-americas
tzdata-antarctica
tzdata-arctic
tzdata-asia
tzdata-atlantic
tzdata-australia
tzdata-europe
tzdata-misc
tzdata-pacific
tzdata-posix
tzdata-right

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Cool! Have to give that a try. Messed around with it last night and to get the time set correctly I found GMT+1, GMT+2… inside and Etc directory. Finding the correct one for my timezone worked well.

Thanks for the help!

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I am going through the same process you are describing.

There are many advantages to community development... but one of them
is not having third party documentation ready on for release dates.

As a new BeagleBone user, I have found it easiest to work though
existing blogs and howtos using the Angstrom distro. The body of
literature is much greater.

When figuring things out on the new Debian disto I have found it
helpful to set Google to only search for article within the last two
weeks.